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J3RottonAm, on Wednesday last, obtained c on le t() I . a Mand amus to go to the Governor an d wh; Pan Y of the B an k o f E ng l and, to s h ew cause i . 06: 11 7 should not make a div i s i on o f a ll t h e • A 8 I/00 0011g to the H o ld ers o f B an k Stock. nt th e sittin g of the Court this day, Sir ARTHUR mi st ated, that yesterday having been a holi- Le: al l the Public Offices, the Bank had not tit): able to cons i der the rule, .•,d he prayed of \ e ; 4 ' ,ll kh was grante d, t ill M on d ay , t h e 25th 4 1', t o s h ew cause. t‘it• P tcor observed, th a t th e a pplicati o n was ht f kn e t el lY novel to th e B an k, w h o h a d experienced tng similar for one hundred and twenty-three 41 the,whole duration of their existence. 11 . 1 L LATE APPEAL OF MURDER. Ov e ' hp.) ASHFORD V. THORNTON'. , witilahl w lerstand that a Subscription is most ~efati7_ tliaking for WILLIAM ASHFORD and his Itiin4ll (who wo nld ot h erw i se b e i nvo lved . "atte: 10 enable them to defray the heavy costs )ia,'' bt Pe nces of th e A ppea l o f M u rder, lately li kt e eH eed the Court of King's Bench against tetl TfioaNTox. A report had been ci.rctid 41'''"t a large s o m of money was subscribed •-:'°'te ain the A ppea l, but we have authority the report was without foundation. f true that many persons of the first_ -ti m ",, " 41 - respectability, being aware.fi of ' s -'ltt ' 4ll4 l „, - ; "sHroan's• circumstances, had signified reti t desire to contribute towards his ex- Every iiitlividual of common feeling and . . 4 1: 1 1' ,i''° 1 1, best acquainted with 'lie facts of this %J A I- i : l ° l , l Y case, approved of the appeal instituted hit 'HoßN•rosi under a most salutary as well /ilt 41. Y ancient li:or of the land ; and although h. teittt ak/ of that suit has not been successful, Kehl , t° 4 deftqwe Which THORNTON _Weis ad- N t h '° be at liberty to resort to, by claiming a tit thii t °l trial Bo barbarous- and irrational as to NI) lite Might for right, and so obsolete that Sh ia Its f ( nRIS are scarcely known at this day. tiq" Callum have any effect on public °P I . - I tb N i e • 4 „ 1111 , serif/ugly to be lamented that 4 'is e : - "cted, as it was, with so much purity eli tt i t i tl ess on the part of the appellant, could I,7 l ste '`in l et 's a further investigation before a Jury. iPpy 'lsolation is, however, derived to the tin t 4ttd~eir P l 'ents and relations of the unfortunate 1,-s4Potin, (ruin the reflection that they IL " "Ppoitunity the law afforded of seek ail(' th at t h ey h ave not neg l ecte d to 444 11 ' ; i 1 t hat duty w hi c h t h e sacre d cause o f in * " t ie and innocence required of them. u F 4 1 )( ),„ e so entirety concur 'in the benevolent a tt "ily ( . 4e Proposed Subscription, that we will R e Contributions at THE Surf Office, tat,' allstmit them to the parties- authoriZed to • . 11441 into e fleet. "E'r FIRST SPRING MEETLNG, 1814 . ' • I g'spk, ItSUAY, APRIL 30. • ti . ex a ~e of 1 00 gs for four-yr-olds, llst. sve, Ist.9lb. 4.43"Yi nl i ba - ... " .' a ged, 42st Last three miles of B.C. 1 1/1-,Nr, - C' t s gr. c. Skirls, 4 yrs • "' ' l . Cann Ball, d Ik t Uti age 3 , C. Pandour, 4 yrs dr 'b. g. Belville 6 y rs • s h . dr trew s Fugitive, aged dr It &to 4oafr. S overeign, 4 yrs , Plll. ;Pll errt , "t Skun-5 to 4' agst Cannon ▪ l' ls c Ni l4 , Bst. 81h. heat Mr. Prince's Sylvanus, • •-• Wogs. b. ft.-6 to 4 agst Milton. "I W hisker, Bst. sib. beat. Ld G. H. ( aren e Dick 7st. 121 b. D.M. 200g5,, h. ft.--ti to son cloth, It, 44 Sta e , of 100 each, h. ft. for Vie., fist. 41h.. t ` t '.) ach • I).M. Then g * years old. •tlf r s f 7 7 rising three 7 1 .•••• k i co;,,, es . f "3• It axy, out of Brisets 2 st"etiL; pd. f " t . . "7 l Z lit ou L o d f,Pic il t a li c ie e t but two. tolegst Naxy7.__s . to 4 ;p i t Lou. • p„,h7n.udicap Swec st h • o f io , rs each, D.M. 44' Nl)w artzenbt • a l is 0 1 ' V 're ) ',, P '" 1 ) 1 , 4 Yrs i E;' 3 yr s, "t. 0 2 itt s L Byron , S s y;s, est. 9lb. t .I'%.*,tsi,,tael,dead heat to 4Oonne Parrot-6 to 4 agst Lady Byron. til v , 4 j: each, for two-yr-olds, 7st. each. T.Y.C. 1 1. 14 , ................... Wi ls, ` f. Juniper out Of Sell= . 2 hr. f. by Orville, out of Golden Leg's dam 3 l'Y .... ti .......................... 4 .• by Orville, Out of The Maid of Orleans .. • 5 to 4 Juniper f.--3 to I agst Selim f. ~Qo outs e Ste rd 2 tlie Princ e of HuSSE HOMBURG spent 3lttinspecting the monuments and other ta of Westminster Abbey. ' l4 k %,,'; 4/ - * , i 4 ;;ATRE —Affe r the revived drama of The s t wi til a, in which KEAN again exerted him 41,e6enterelit success, a new mell-drame was s t ir 14 tinder the title of The Mountain Chief. 4atl awi e d (V V ALL Acx) , a mountain outlaw, had ikught,p",carried off dnado (Miss CUBLTT), the ti Nit #., (4 miller, who is betrothed to Sir Hel with 11 1 , tt iffia -..NAD), who with her family pursues 117 I 6v ers ki lls him, and a marriage between eancludes the piece. The scene lies in 414 111 e Piece was supported by some pictu -4 Ne d ly and agreeable music, and, though rt. ) 'Y many on its conclusion, will probably Nat , - 41 1ip e u With success, as many were in its I t : 4 41 lat. , lat hulks appears that there are im -I,itlitt. ites olive now floating in the Atlantic, .•' , („v veer I! e Going th arrivedpng and summer. 4 ri t fritl e , I . I,_ 'O O ._? ilch has from Halifax, saw ,iiitg„ ,iiyards in height, and apparently seven erence, standing southward with /,' ,l t,: r : cir euthf lit ettt• Captain Qu t , a f the Grand EAU, 0 II I " v ilich 1) , • . k: 4, hat, ha arrtved at Dprry. from New Fork, l 'l , 3_ on the 1 5(11 of February, in lat. 43, ),lit. 411 through sever I • 1 1 Niles i i ' a uninense islands of ice, , ct 4.. . I extent., and from three to four bun- Cq tv rt IAV ) . - T 1 • - 11 .. - ..- te s ip, with strong westerly Wks v.__ . . • WU Clays in getting clear of (bun. POETRY. FOURTH EPISTLE TO THE 'EDINBURGH REVI EWERS. Malevolus animus abditos dentes habet. Light Troops dismiss'd, my Phalanx on I lead; Again ten syllables to eight succeed. My only doubt, so various is your sin, With which of all my charges to begin - : Let then the Order of IMportance guide, And thus, one only way can I decide. RELIGION'S interests (reverenc'd be that name), As first in consequence, first notice claiM; There I begin, and must indulgence ask, , If at some length I execute the task. From better views I trust than man's applause, I now stand forth to aid Religion's cause ; Which is, as surely as itself is true, Attack'd by sap and sneer in your REVIEW.. From one who strikes a fair and open blow, There is less danger than Irons secret foe ; So better far the Infidel avow'd, Than he who veils false deeds in friendly shroud; Who, whilst he aims to shake, asserts In lief, Prowling in darkness like the nightly thief. Were I employ'd to form the minds of youth, To teach then loyalty and Christian truth, I'd rather bid . them take PAINE'S Age of Reason, That atheistic sink of Vice and Treason, Than the vile book which every . quarter brings Your Sneers at ChUrch, at Ministers, and Kings. For PAINE, tho' more Outrageous and impure, Bears in his own vulgarity a cure; Whilst you, with weapon highly pulisli'd, hurt, And e'er itself perceives, the mind pervert. Well may the progress of the mining Mule Shew how your doctrines act upon the soul : The Mole feeds not upon the upper shoot, But does more mischief darkly at the root; Whilst groping on along Isis covert way, The Mole harms what is not his proper prey; The Mole strives not to aid his feeble sight, But rather seeks the darkness than the light So you, retiring from the light you need, VOLTAIRE much oftener than the Scripture read; Howe'er remote the suLject of your libel— Your sneers are always pointed at THE BIBLE; And tho' you do not openly deny it, You aim with gibes sarcastic to decry it; I can one difrrence, and but one, assign, Moles act from instinct, —, from design. About the time when WILLIAM, good and great, On firmest basis fix'd our Church and State, Then, with the blessings we acquir'd, arose A dangerous junto of insidiouS foes; Who, advocates of unbelief and Treason, Made use of Reason's name to cast down Reason: Self-call'd Philosophers, whose noble aim Was to eradicate the Christian name ! Who dar'd to think and teach, with impious pride, That, man himself, in vain for man, Christ died. Nor strove alone the Christian to perplex, But to cast off the needful social checks ; Themselves unconscious from their fatal creed What massacres, what horrors, would proceed, Taught men to scorn what ouce they view'd with awe, To spurn at Rulers, and to break the Law. Just was thy lot, Oh! FRANCE; the mischief bred In thee, dropt its worst poisons on thy head. What Monsters then sprang up! what victims fell ! What deeds were done, which wade Earth seem a Hell Till frenzied freedom's furies to restrain, Her limbs were fetttr'd by a Despot's chain. He curb'd—then us'd her giant - strength to break All ancient forms—Kings to unmake and make; And subjugate the world—but now 'tis past— The mighty Despot from his Throne is cast: Still those false doctrines which corrupt the mind, Lull conscience, faith destroy, and reason blind, Remain--and hare their advocates to quote Each dangerous passage, and praise them who wrote. Such are you —, whom I should by name Supporter of these fallacies proclaim. You do not say dire,ctly they are true, But speak approvingly of those that do. VoLTAIRE for wit ; ROUSSEAU for eloquence ; And D'ALEMRERT commend for depth and sense ; For judgment HuME; and thus to all the rest Without fit caution, praises are address'd : Praises for judgment, fancy, wit, research, Which they employ'd to overthrow tbethurch. And when you blame so gently discommend, As marks approval pot!' of means and end ; Shews all you think, tho' all is not avow'd; • The Sun would dazzle, if not veil'd by cloud ; Good pious Dolts you must not shock too much. Then say, kind Sir, you who so softly touch, If to debauch your• Wife some rake thought fit, And therron Cuckolds pour'd a flood of wit; Would you approve ? could you your rage controul ? How should you then wit, which endanger's soul, Receive ; with strong abhorrence of the jest, With indignation every way express'd. And did you thus receive ? let that appear By proofs how ably you can point the sneer ; Cam on the failings of the Priesthood dwell, And pleas'd each scandalous aspersion tell; Can all they think and do misrepresent, And where faults are not to be found, invent; Aiming to make the taught despise the teacher, Anti wound Religion's Doctrines thro' the Preacher. PARR made you sick by pompous words and rant; NARES ; by his Special Providence and Cant. Alas! the good Archdeacon little dreamt His pious thoughts would meet with such contempt An. Army praying is a finer sight, He said, than one whose ranks are rang'd for fight. This !Romania, rous'd your ire, And set—nu wonder—your bold soul on fire; Fur you, by powers prophetic, could foresee How great your honours in the field would be, When you should view. full pointed at your bead, The glorious pistol destitude of Je..ad. And when the Preacher spoke,of rain and storm, Ai means God's will cooimission'd to perform, • seemed absurd to Critic so profound. Who said—a sparrow falls not to the ground, Without God's fears? THE SAVIOUR—he who said The very hairs are numbered on your head— Presumptious Critic! di op your impious eye; Nor dare a Special Providence deny ; Do not presume OMNIPOTENCE to scan, Adore in faith, and know yourself. but Man. So sure ant I this principle is true, I trust some good will come from your REVIEW, Altlio' by reason and mere human sense, I can't conjecture when, how, why, or whence. Molventße was not perued with half the zest, Because he Scripture doctrines too mucb press'd; Neer push'd his foot beyond its magic round, As tho' within it by enchantment bound Did not enough the moral sanctions use, On carnal appetites and worldly views. Was overstrict ; in short was barely civil, To your three dearest friends—WOßLD, FLESH, and DEVIL. No wonder then you gave him castigation, Wh'lst you dealt out your smiles and approbation To men who preach'd up morals with the glow • Of Eeic•rE•rus and of CICERO ! And would for illustration sooner call On SENECA,WO MATTHEW, JOHN. or PAUL; Who do nut time o.n points of doctrine waste, But talk of fitness, moral truth, and taste. On LANGWoRTH too you strove to pour your wit, But groan'd and fel in apoplectic fit.; Falling, you still retain'd your awful frown, And with convulsive kick, knock'd LANc WORTH down ; He rose unhurt ; hreatVd forth a pitying prayer, Then left you to your dark associate's care. They, lest..reports injurious might he spread, That these convulsion fits had hurt yOur head, Till now the real truth a secret kept, And wade the world believe you had but slept. With equal rage, like Vulture, down you pounc'd Qn RENNELL, whom with cruel claws you trouned, Because he dar'd•in NEtsoN's deeds•rejOice. And, as their cause, thank Goo with grateful voice; Dar'd designate by its appropriate term ROUSsEAU, VOLTAIRE, and all the foreign firm-; As they were friends of HUME and Co. This was like striking at yourself a blow. For this, with Billivgsgate abuses manta, • Bully and Swaggerer was the Doctor call'd. Prove, said the Critic, e're you give the lye— It has been prov'd, the Doctor might reply; Or WATSON, BUTLER, PALEY, wrote in Can one short sermon all these proofs contain ? Better to speak then with the warmth I feel, • Since reason sanctions all the warmth of zeal. But most was rous'd your critic indignation By hints on CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION— This RENNELL blaui'd—what had the man deluded? Conceited blockhead !L—not to think as you did ? The motive is quite plain—how men will fawn When grasping at the distant sleeves of lawn ! Base Critic! think you then all men like you, Who never move but with a fee in view ? Science itself by you was misemploy'd To make the Christian dispensation void; With man's eternal interests to sport; `Vo render infidelity support; And prove that evidence, however great, Can never MIRACLES authenticate. Nature, you said, is constant in her course, No proofs can faith against experience force." What ! can ,ot he who made, suspend his laws ? Is not his WILL alone sufficient cause ? Yet here there is just-cause for deviation, In the great work of sinful man's Salvation. How could a SAviotJß sent from COD be known • As troy, except by Miracles alone? Coofirm'd to us by men who saw; and bore, To prove their truth, stripes, tortures, scorn—nay more, Death in his worst of forms—yet they deceive, And science tells us we must not believe. Far better 'none than such perverted science Which sets the Scripture Doctrines at defiance ; Which cannot Lava depositions view . Without supposing Scripture tacts'untrue— Nor see this globe, its motions, forms and wonder's— Without inventing geologic blunders— Water and fire are now brought into play; Monads and Vortices. have had their day. Each path of error thus in turn is trod, • Because Alan's pride will not resort to Cop ;. One-dreamer thisanother that supposes; • • • Better to take the simple truths of Moses — We need inkfurther seek for this World's birth: GOD', in six days, wade th' Heavens loathe Earth." - Yet, think not man, by ignoranceyeptest, , . Need tread the Earth a dull, incurious guest; No—into Nature's secrets let hini pry; Let him o'er all things cast a searching eye; Let him aspire from outward marks to know What hidden hoards enrich the depths below ; Where coal, in beds, has laid her jetty stores; Where metals spread, in veins, their various ores; But whilst he seeks, and treasures Obsetvation, Let him not tear the veil which hides Creation. Here Vulcanist and Neptuni,rt exclaim ! And philosophic— cries out shame ! Learn physics from your Bible! mighty' Odd ! Yes—learn to trace Creation to my Con. • Affecting candour which you never felt, Oft you thought fit o'er Catholic griefs to melt; Mourning their hardships in such plaintiVe Strain, As tho' you wish'd their mummeries back again. The Inquisition most should you beMoan As doing deeds congenial with your own ; You;•who with like remorseless rage attack, And stretch poor Author's on the Critic rack. But nu—this charge, I own, does not apply— Your arrows with more fatal purpose fly ; The Christian tree in the mid root they strike, And aim to wither every branch alike. What else could you, most.candid Critic", mean, When on the Protestants you pour'd your spleen? Thattbey should be as persecutors rank'd, Aiming to prove—but vainly—Con be thank'd. For with such proof, you knew this inference And inly made—'twere well were both extinct! Were some enlighten'd philosophic creed, To their dark senseless jargon to succeed. -By which our lives and morals mightte- mended ; • • And all the Missionary follies ended ! The Missionaries! what ? not spare e'en them? Could you - these mild, yet dauntless men, condemn ? Yes, yes, to them (who every danger brave In distant lands their fellow men to save, To teach the Heathen how to die and lire), Fanatics, Bigots, are the names you give, - • Mikan not thus these friends of human kind; , Break from the.spells•which fascinate your mind; Laugh.with VC LTAI RE no more; your judgment-clear;• Get free frum HU,ME •nopiore with'GIBBON sheer; ' Employ such talents as your Cop-has given • • To spread the Truth, and point the road to Heaven: So when your life approaching to its Close,' You feel how vain is all this world bestows; - May you with hopeslike theirs, resign your breath, Resting in Cu utsT, and seeing Life in Death. * C. Yesterday morning Prince LEoPoLb 'came to . town from Claremont, and visited her MAJasiv and the PRINCESSES at the Queen's Palace, and the Duchess of YORK at York-house. la the evening the Prince returned to Claremont. FREEMASONS.—On Wednesday last was held the Installation and Nomination of Grand Officers of the Ancient Freemasons of England, at their Hall, as follows : H. R. H. the Duke of SUSSEX, Grand Master. Right. Hon. Lord Dundas, Deputy Grand Master. Rig ht Hon. Lord Viscount Torrington, Senior Grand Warden. R. W. Lewis Haves Petit, Junior, Grand Warden. T. W. Coke, M.P. Provincial Gd. Master of Norfolk. John George Lanibton, M.P. ditto, Durham. --- John Dent, Grand Treasurer. — 7 -- Rev. L. D. H. Cockburn, Grand Chaplain. William Meyrick, Grand Registrar. William H. White, }Grand Sedretaries. - Edward ;Harper, —., Rev. H. Giese, Gd. Sec. for Gprman Correspondence. - 7 -7- John Soatie, MN:Grand' i,7 * Perintendant of Works evc ., Sir George Naylor, Grand Direotoreetereinatiles. William D. Cummins, Grand Sword Bearer. -- Sir George Smart, Grand Organist. James A. Frampton, Senior Grand Deacon. Junes Al`Cann, jun, Grand Deacon. HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Continued from our First Pagel ARTILLERY DRIVERS. Mr. BENNET rose to make his rtomised motion, and to endeavour to obtain redress for tie Officers of the Corps of Artillery Drivers, whose case he had in vain submitted to the consideration of his Majesty's Ministers. He entered at large into all his former statements, couteuding, that when those Officers had gone into the service, it was with a promise that they should reire, or, it re. duced, be continued on full pay. Hr complained of the hardships to which they were subjeeteo by the arbitrary nature of the arrangements adopted towards them, and by which men who had sacri ficed their time and health, and exptised their lives for 22 years in the service of their country, were reduced to half-pay, whilst others, who had , served only seven years, enjoyed all - the het efits of their full pay. He then moved, that an humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would be gra ciously pleased to dir ct that the sum of 3559/. be paid to the Officers of the eight troops of Artil lery Myers, and to assure him that .the House would snake good the same. Mr. WARD said, the lion. Gentleman had placed him and those he represented in. a painful situa tion—that of being forced, from a sense of duty, to deny to a meritorious class of Gentlemeh,what, if the House chose. to grant it, the Master-Ge neral had no personal wish to prevent. As long, 'however, as duty was to be performed, he was haunt! to .state the official reasons against this grant. They were many and strong. But, in the first instance, be was anxious to deliver theCtiO from all adventitious difficulty, and utterly 'to deny that any promise,, express or implied, had - 'ever been 'made bythe NoWe.Lord at , present at. The head of the Department, or any one acting under hini, or, as far as he knew, any- of their predi:- cessors'iihateVer. He had been called -upon t o deny that the Officers themselves expected it in their Own . minds. But who could answer for what passed in another man's . mind without io spiratiOn; which he certainly, did' not possess ?- f - All he would do:was to deny that they had arty reason for such expectation—for even a semblance of a hope that any of the Officers in question were to retire on full pay. That was conflnedto those of the four, tropps who had been .. .arbitrarily as fit were deprived of their commissions, while the troops themselves remained on service. All the rest had retired, as of course,.witlitiie trOAis they bad commanded, and, as of course,on half-pay. his was in fact the true, the real, and only distinction' betweeti them, and afforded the only-reason flier could goVern the case. Whet ,v ; as. its history In the Ittin'y in 'which the whole Dt her Service was composed, excellent as It now was, there was this great defect thit its Officers,.. although: they certainly hail military 'rank, _could have no. military command ;lie meant of guns and gunners .; By their commission [which he here read] . their' command was confined to Commissary Officers, drivers, military farriers, am) an fleet's, and the Management of the artillery hors's. TheY were, therefore, ordered. to obey the - youngest Officer of the regiment who bad the charge at arty lery in the field. Hence the •Conunissinners of Military — lnquiry , describe : , their dillies rather - es those lir - internal regular icin, ,in : resnect to the state and condition of the borses and_ men, Alan-. those of the regular service in fighting the guns.: The-se duties.. they 'had most satisiactorily. per formed, in -.the very teeth of the:enemy, and, in . as.far as itseouired more cool 'determination to be passive. under danger, too much could not be said, of their gallantry. But this did riot alter the - condition, of their •service, by which, -from the.. tertits of their commissions, on 'account a the • nature of their duties, they were cold - not to ex pect - to rise' higher than the rank of. a- Captain- Commissary.—(Hear, hear !) 77 .1t , was evident-, - ,merittiriOns as theycertainly _were, that with such coturtissiOns; great milirary promotion could not be open to than dud if they, had . sustained any- - peculiar injUry'by 'being placed on half-pay,.. be yond th'ontantls of" other gallant Officers, it .could not be -from the loss of such promotion. Mr. Ward here said, he hoped nothing he bad. ob served was calculated to hurt the feelings of any__ one of these meritorious persons ; many of them , he believed had - shown considerable talents ; among them lie was the first to- acknowledge those of the Officer that had been brought for ward (Captain Humphreys.) He 'belieVed, in fact, that it was the anomalous nature of 'their service, thus crippled, that alone-prevented their pursuit of a full military career, But, at least; such an 'anomaly was found inconvenient, and the Master-General could not .he blamed if he endeavoured, as spots as be could, to put. an end to it. This could ; only, be done,. either by removing the Officers, While the men_ were kept up, :and introduciOg the Officers of the regiment in , their stead ;. or by .waitin g till the - troops themselves were reduced at a Peace, and upon a re-establishment .of the-corps on a future war,:making a new constitution. „In the-first stance, as these Officers.. would have been arbi trarily deprived of their commissions•by no fault of theirs,' arid the service going on, it would have been unjust not to have given them the compensa tion of full" pay; In' the last,as the circumstance of being on half-pay gives no right to return to the service, should other regulations forbid., no one could complain at not being restored.—(Hear, hear !)—Then -what had the Noble Lord done ? In regard to eight out of twelve troopi the men . had at different times been- disbanded, and the officers had retired on half-pay. In regard to the four remaining, • as the men were •kept up, and officers of the ,Horse Artillery introduced, the Driver Officers, thus forcibly as it were dispos sessed, and - faultless themselves, received the com pensation due to,thetn, namely, full pay. This Was the real 'case. Was there any thing in - ar- • gument #fa alter it ? The Hon. Gentleman had dwelt mWth upon the merits of CaptaitHumph reys, and the tact that the sth and 6th troops, for which alone lie pleaded, had served till Sep tember 1816, though ordered . to be reduced in April. Suppose they had 'Served till now ! If the men were reduced with them, would that make any difference ? That Captain Hum phreys bad served twenty-three years meritori ously he was very willing to allow, and that a